Creating and Maintaining Stored Programs

In this chapter, we'll explain how to create, maintain, and delete stored programs .

By definition, a stored program exists in the database (it wouldn't be stored otherwise, right?). So the fundamental process of creating a stored program involves submitting SQL statements to MySQL, just as creating a table involves submitting the CREATE TABLE statement. The basic process of creating and maintaining a stored program is very similar to that of creating any other kind of database object: you write some SQL to create the object and you (hopefully) save that SQL somewhere safe so that you can reuse it later. At some later time you may alter the object (or drop and recreate it), and you may want to find out information about it.